At a Young Age, Children Are Not Able to Understand

question 141

Multiple Choice

At a young age, children are not able to understand that the world that others experience is different from their own. Children also tend to overestimate their own abilities. A failure to outgrow these youthful characteristics might explain the development of ________ personality disorder.

• A) antisocial
• B) borderline
• C) histrionic
• D) narcissistic

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Definitions:

Empirical Evidence

Information acquired by observation or experimentation that serves as the basis for knowledge and the formation of theories.

Philosophy

The study of fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.

Operant Conditioning

An approach to learning where behavioral potency is changed through the implementation of incentives or consequences.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process in which two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is initially elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.